Cups info migration

[C M Reinehr]

On Monday 04 June 2007 10:57, Vu Pham wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 09:07 -0500, C M Reinehr wrote:
> > On Monday 04 June 2007 07:50, Vu Pham wrote:
> > > Is there a tool to migrate all the cups printer configuration from one
> > > server (RH 7.2) to another one (RHEL 4)?
> > >
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Vu
> >
> > How about tar cvf cups.tar /etc/cups ? ;-)
>
> Hmm, is that all ? I thought of something similar to the folder hierachy
> of LPD 's /var/spool/lpd.
>
> I feel stupid. Thanks CM. Let me try.
>
> Vu

Don't feel stupid on my account! I just threw that out there without much 
thought. As Leon just mentioned, "Don't forget /var/run/cups/printcap" -- I 
didn't even know about that.

But, anyway, a good place to start would be to install CUPS with your package 
manager and start looking for things you can copy over. IIANM all of the 
configuration as well as the ppd files are ascii files found 
in /etc/cups. /var/run/cups/printcap, apparently, is configured when you add 
printers.

If you have a lot of printers to configure, you might start by installing one 
manually, and then see what files are updated as a way of discovering what 
would need to be copied over.

Alternatively, you could automate the lpadmin command with a shell script.

Hope this helps a little, without damaging your self-esteem any further! :-)

Cheers!

cmr

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